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Here's Why Ted Cruz Fought to Keep Sex toys illegal
Reason magazine ^ | April 13, 2016 | Damon Root

Posted on 04/14/2016 9:16:23 AM PDT by lonestar67

This is all fun stuff and will no doubt lead to some very clever jokes on The Daily Show. But there were also some very serious legal questions at stake. Namely, what limits does the U.S. Constitution place on the legislative power of state governments, and what role do federal judges play in enforcing those limits? Related to that, what sort of unenumerated rights (if any) are protected from state infringement by the 14th Amendment?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bedroom; cruz; dildoted; election; lonestar67; taft; texas
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To: McGruff
That would be use if we were selecting a lawyer but we’re not are we.

No, we aren't. We're selecting someone to lead a republic, not manage a corporation.

41 posted on 04/14/2016 9:48:10 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Black Agnes

I don’t. It’s still not in the Constitution. It allows legislatures to do things that are stupid. It’s just not there, not even emanating from a penumbra.


42 posted on 04/14/2016 9:48:59 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: cdcdawg

I always wondered what type of people wanted to make tampons illegal for unmarried women.

Now I know.


43 posted on 04/14/2016 9:50:05 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Who are they? Since now you “know”.


44 posted on 04/14/2016 9:51:55 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: cdcdawg

The same ones who think it’s conservative to pass laws against what can, or cannot, be allowed to touch anyone elses genitals even when they’re alone. Read upthread for an example.

I did actually already know however. The church I grew up in had some members who thought the ‘free sale’ of tampons over the counter to ‘just anyone’ was the end of a moral society. Obviously tampons should only be allowed for sale to married women. Because. Or something.


45 posted on 04/14/2016 9:55:39 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: lonestar67

If sex toys are illegal, only criminals will have them, /S.


46 posted on 04/14/2016 9:58:05 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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To: lodi90

“he lost”

Bingo.

That’s our Raphael.


47 posted on 04/14/2016 9:59:01 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: South Dakota
Why would they ask about sex toys when jus soli and jus sanguinis are more relevant topics?

Cause they're Democrat shill media hacks, looking to embarrass the Republican more than anything else. Remember Mitt and Stephanopoulos and the birth control question?


48 posted on 04/14/2016 9:59:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lodi90

“No, he lost and declined to appeal to SCOTUS. What a self serving “warrior”.”

I really ought to look up whatever published decisions are out there. I suspect the actual work quality is run of the mill pomposity and string citations, with an occasional irrelevant treatise mentioned here and there. There are certainly no flashes of all the vaunted brilliance in this dodgy, underwhelming, pratfall and suck up of a campaign. When one calls in ‘help’ like Neil Bush and Glenn Beck... Well, ‘nuff said about brilliance.


49 posted on 04/14/2016 10:00:26 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom! He gets the fence whitewashed and the other kids pay for it too!)
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To: Salgak

He was the Solicitor General. Which meant he worked for the Attorney General, who had to make the call. . .


We’ll then the Attorney General gets the credit for “fighting”. Cruz was just following orders, after all.


50 posted on 04/14/2016 10:01:16 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: vette6387
States don’t have a Constitutional Right to regulate interpersonal relationships that do not involve prostitution.

The idea that people would have to move to be able to use sex toys is a laughable notion.

Which interpersonal relationships are you speaking of? A buyer and a seller? That is what is being regulated, not the use of the sex toys. It's not illegal to own or use them. If you want to buy one, cross the state lines and buy one, or move.

51 posted on 04/14/2016 10:01:21 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: lonestar67

There are not nearly resources to defend every lost State case to the Supreme Court which accepts a tiny fraction of legal cases compared to the rest of the Federal court system.

It was a prudent use of Texas taxpayer dollars.


Thank you for confirming Family Values cases are not important to Ted Cruz.


52 posted on 04/14/2016 10:02:57 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: DannyTN

Very well said.


53 posted on 04/14/2016 10:03:05 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (What are mere facts to a Dominionist Constitutionalist, small government-globalist tool?)
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To: lonestar67

Another loaded headline. Cruz fought to defend Texas state law, which was his job.


55 posted on 04/14/2016 10:03:51 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Black Agnes
The same ones who think it’s conservative to pass laws against what can, or cannot, be allowed to touch anyone elses genitals even when they’re alone.

I'm not the FReeper you were responding to, but you misunderstand the law. It was to prevent SELLING the sex toys, not owning or using them.

56 posted on 04/14/2016 10:05:33 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: lonestar67

While I deplore the fun dies in Texas telling me I have to drive out of state to purchase a tickler, I do appreciate Cruz standing up for states rights to be stupid or not.


57 posted on 04/14/2016 10:07:20 AM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: lonestar67

Too much. There are no Conservative Legal Values.

If you were trying to argue so called “True Conservatism” then you would be for the Rights of the Individual to do as he or she pleases. Not placing any kind of government regulations upon such.

So what we have here is another example of So Called Conservative Hypocrisy and Mendacity of those wanting to tell people how to live rather than getting out of the way.


58 posted on 04/14/2016 10:08:18 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: FreedomOfExpression

Sounds like the ammo ban the left dreams of.

After all, while ‘firearms’ are in the BOR, ammo isn’t.

So banning ammo sales would be perfectly constitutional.

But seriously, this stupid law wasn’t different from ISIS/Taliban bans on ‘suggestive’ vegetables.


59 posted on 04/14/2016 10:10:09 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: firebrand

Point taken. Thanks!


60 posted on 04/14/2016 10:15:24 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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